Oh No!! Another Food Recall: Pizza

Tweet

Just when you thought it was safe to buy food without possibly getting sick...think again. Now this time it's one of our favorite foods...PIZZA and due to e.coli contamination. Here's a quote from one of the websites: The recall affects approximately 414,000 cases of pizza products currently in stores and all similar pizza products in consumers’ freezers. It includes eight SKUs (stock keeping units or UPC codes) of Totino’s brand frozen pizza and three SKUs of Jeno’s brand frozen pizza with pepperoni topping, or incorporating pepperoni in combination with other toppings. The specific products in the recall include:Brand Product SKU number Totino's Party Supreme 42800-10700 Totino's Three Meat 42800-10800 Totino's Pepperoni 42800-11400 Totino's Pepperoni 42800-92114 Totino's Classic Pepperoni 42800-11402 Totino's Pepperoni Trio 42800-72157 Totino's Party Combo 42800-11600 Totino's Combo 42800-92116 Jeno's Crisp 'n Tasty Supreme 35300-00561 Jeno's Crisp 'n Tasty Pepperoni 35300-00572 Jeno's Crisp 'n Tasty Combo 35300-00576 The frozen pizza products were produced in the company’s Wellston, Ohio, plant and distributed to retail establishments nationwide. The potential problem was uncovered by state and federal authorities investigating 21 occurrences of E. coli-related illnesses in 10 states. Approximately half of the individuals who became ill were hospitalized as a result. The earliest case reported to state authorities occurred on July 20, and the latest case reported occurred on Oct. 10. Nine of the 21 people reported having eaten Totino’s or Jeno’s pizza with pepperoni topping at some point prior to becoming ill. Since July 1 of this year, Totino’s and Jeno’s have distributed more than 120 million pizzas nationwide. Totino’s and Jeno’s, working in cooperation with federal and state food safety authorities, launched an investigation immediately upon learning of the potential problem. The whole article is here http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/media_center/news_release_detail.aspx?itemID=29007&catID=227 It seems to be affecting their frozen pizzas that have pepperoni. My question is...Are ANY of the frozen pizzas safe that have pepperoni in it? And yikes..I was just thinking about buying pizza when I went shopping yesterday and the Jeno's brand was on sale..Didn't get though.